Lawyer: Islamic group not linked to gunman

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Published: March. 31, 2012 at 6:50 PM

PARIS, March 31 (UPI) -- The lawyer for the leader of an Islamic group arrested by French authorities said the group has no connection with the Toulouse gunman who killed seven people.

Lawyer Philippe Missamou, who represents Forsane Alizza leader Mohammed Achamlane, one of 19 people arrested Friday for alleged links to radical Islam, said Saturday Achamlane denied the group had anything to do with Mohammed Merah's killings, CNN reported.

Merah killed a rabbi, the cleric's two children and another schoolgirl outside a Jewish school last week and three paratroopers of north African descent the week before.

Merah allegedly admitted to the shootings during a two-day standoff with police at his apartment in Toulouse before he was killed in an exchange of gunfire.

CNN said French media reports have suggested Merah had links to Forsane Alizza, which has followers in Toulouse.

France's Interior Ministry said "19 arrests were made in connection with the group Forsane Alizza" Friday in Toulouse, Marseille, Nantes, Lyon and the Ile de France region, around Paris.

Interior Minister Claude Gueant said five rifles, four automatic weapons, three Kalashnikov rifles and a bulletproof vest were found in searches of the suspects' homes.

Missamou said Achamlane said Forsane Alizza did not support armed combat. The lawyer said the group was not dangerous but worked to battle injustice against Muslims in France.

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Lawyer linked to looted accused Madam

A lawyer of Manhattan high - profile with links to the accused Madam Anna Gristina was raided Friday by investigators that carried the paperwork storage boxes.

The seizure in the Office of the Prosecutor veteran David Jaroslawicz comes, as an accountant and two young women accused of prostitution were also involved in the sensational case.

Jaroslawicz, which produced several plays, are featured in the largest city legal drama when Detectives down on its low building of Broadway.

It is linked to the State of home where Gristina lives with her hunky husband and four children - and a well placed source, building e. 78th St. where she headed was a brothel of $ 10 million.

As the case proceeded, he hired includes eagle legal Ben Brafman, who insisted "nothing illegal" went on.

"I talked to the Office of the DA", said Brafman. "They told me that it was not a target of the investigation." That's all. ?

Jaroslawicz, 65, has represented women in costume of sex against Brett Favre and the Sultan of Brunei. During the days of Go - Go of the first explosion of the Internet, it has carved out a niche representing the women who have been sexually harassed electronic business.

"A lot of these guys think that they are the new masters of the universe," he told the news at the time. "They have mix reality and virtual reality and begin to treat women as objects."

Now he is entangled in the continuation of Gristina and matchmaker Robert Mae Baker, who are accused of selling women and powerful men for $2,000 at night.

Jaroslawicz has a pension of 20 acres of Monroe, New York, just next to the property Gristina, 44, rent. Records list him as the "Manager" of the company who holds property, too.

The law enforcement source said that it was also be surveyed in the upper East Side building where Gristina had a stable of beauties johns rich and powerful service.

Folders list Diana Ruhl, 42, and her husband, Jonathan, as principals in the company which is the owner of the building. She is a lawyer at Ridgewood, New Jersey, whose family has real estate interests. She refused to comment.

Prosecutors told the Court that the owner of the nest e. 78th St. love is a human "friend counsel" of Gristina which was essentially his partner.

"[He] invests his money, she helped set up his business and helping to launder its money," Deputy District Attorney of Charles Linehan told a judge last month.

"He essentially locked money for it this should never happen, therefore it will have money when it comes out."

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